* Dedicated SDK now supports ASLR enabled executables.
* Complete removal of CEngineClient on the dedicated server.
* Complete removal of gHLClient and g_pHLClient on the dedicated server.
* Performance improvements for the dedicated server frame loop.
* ConVar 'CVCallback_t' structure rebuild.
* Reduced overhead throughout SDK.
Migrating to this to initialize all patterns and prototypes in Systems_Init() instead.
This should make debugging missing/not found patterns easier and allow for opting out variable/constant search (some of these require other patterns to be found, thus resulting in seg faults..).
Also added check to detect if user has a eligible CPU to run this SDK.
The game requires SSE and SSE2 instruction sets. Our SDK requires this too due to the use of SSE intrinsics, so we cannot let the game handle this. We have to check it ourselves.
* Move most definitions to implementation file to avoid recompiling whole program for small changes
* Pass strings by reference for where possible.
* Split Module class to dedicated file.
* Add const qualifiers to all eligible methods for address/module class
* Some renaming
Inline every signature defined in the SDK (previously each translation unit had its own copy of the signature and function prototype). DLL init is near instant now (85% speed improvements).
* Added 2 new FileSystem pointers with new features in their classes.
* Register all factory instances created by the GameDLL in the SDK.
* Added new command 'fs_mount_vpk' to mount a specified VPK file.
* Renamed 'fs_decompress_pak' to 'fs_unpack_vpk'.
* Some renaming of Factory and VPK types.
* Some light optimizations/cleanup.
* Adapt codebase to new class to reduce rune-like code.
* Fixed several bugs where the global CClient pointer was used instead of the instance in question to issue bans and display information about a certain client in CBanSystem and Pylon.
* Upgraded CBanSystem and Pylon to use IPv6 instead (including IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses). This breaks all existing banlist files! All bans have to be re-issued or the existing file has to be updated to use IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses and renamed to 'banlist.json', and moved to the root of the 'platform' folder.
Game will check scripts/levels/mapname.json and load all rpaks in the rpak field.
Game now also unloads pak files loaded by the SDK preventing crashes and unnecessary memory usage.
VPK's and STBSP's are planned to be added as well.
* Added ability to invert rect to calculate offsets from bottom/right as well so debug text doesn't get out of view, or obstruct view when window is resized.
* Added Con_NPrintf() hook which shows detailed systems running times and VGUI panel debug information.
* Partially rebuild CGlobalVarsBase and CGlobalVars struct.
* Partially implement BuildAINFile (disk builder) written by BobTheBob9. All that needs to be found are the addresses/offsets for 'pUnkStruct0Count' and 'pUnkLinkStruct1Count' (see ai_node.h). I didn't have time for it yet.
* Patch call which restarts the engine once AIN file has been build (so it doesn't get cleared from memory).
* Temporarily patch write operation in 'Detours_LevelInit()' which writes out of scope since the navmesh structure is misaligned somewhere still with a few bytes.
NOTE: 'CAI_NetworkBuilder::BuildFile()' is for now commented out until the 2 other structs are found in the game dll. Once found then we could start fixing the struct offsets and hope it works as-is.
* Add CServerGameDLL interface to SDK (unfinished)
* Inline all CHostState members. Calling discrete member functions will result in a corrupt stack. It also alters with the VTable layout in the engine since we assign our SDK instance directly to it. Forcing everything to be inline (like the assembled counterpart within the executable itself) will ensure no virtual calls will get created and misalign the base VTable.
* Patch SQVM_CompileError to call SQVM_Error with the severity flag set to false (0 = do not terminate process, 1 is terminate process).
* Add Cbuf_AddText and Cbuf_Execute signatures.
* Remove additional VGui stuff from dedicated statemachine.
* Move signatures to their respective headers.
* De-inline 'CHostState::FrameUpdate()'
* Ported al new patters to GAMEDLL_S1, CEngine still recreation needs extra work
** SERVER **
* Close redundant connections if max sockets have been reached.
* Ban if client keeps spamming without authing first (ignoring message).
* Check for whitelisted address before issuing bans (whitelisted address in ConVar 'sv_rcon_whitelist_address' will never get banned or get its connection terminated.
* Transmit SQVM and DevMsg logs over the wire to the net console.
** NETCON **
* IPv6 support.
* Close connection properly after FIN request.
* Prompt user to reconnect after connection has been terminated instead of closing the application.
* Add proper quit command.
** SDKLAUNCHER **
* Rename to 'launcher.exe' to describe its purpose better. Our logo gets printed nice and large on the console during startup.
** SDK **
* Cleanup.
* Fully rewritten protocol agnostic CNetAdr class
* Fully rebuilded legacy CNetAdr class
* Fully rebuilded dual-stack CSocketCreator class
* New project "netconsole" added (lightweight netconsole for RCON)
RCON is still work in progress
* Load server VPK's instead of client VPK's on standalone servers
* Dynamically search for 'g_bDedicated' global boolean instead of hardcoded address
* Add 'PatchString' to memory class
* IConsole overlay now clears the oldest log entries to stay under the vector limit instead of clearing the whole vector.
* IConsole code cleanup.
* IBrowser code cleanup, reordered class methods.
* Use ConVar utilities to get/set values for strings in IBrowser and IConsole.
* New ConVar's for RUI console overlay to tweak colors.
For some reason the same byte pattern wasn't found in the miles dll for the S3 game, even though they where identical. Changed the byte patterns to search for the last 2 bytes of the instruction as well and made the conditional jmp instructions, unconditional for making sure mileswin64.dll doesn't close the process when a debugger is found.
* Since the material mode is set to '2', all of the render loops and shader loading functions are no longer called. These have all been removed.
* Added description for patches that missed them
* Traced root caller/cause for certain patches to skip even more unnecessary code and save more memory.
The dedicated server still has directx dll imports which will cause issues with ReShade or 3DMigoto, or trying to load it on a headless machine with no directx installed. The imports have to be cleared to avoid issues. The most convenient approach is to do this with a separate exe rather then patching it in runtime.
The instruction at 'CalcPropStaticFrustumCull' [0x14028F3B0 + 0x5C7] moves RSP + 0x70 into the R13 register.
RSP + 0x70 seems to contain a pointer to collission data for that particular prop model.
When running NoShaderApi() and passing the dedicated server the '-noshaderapi' command line parameter, RSP + 0x70 will be a nullptr.
This has to be fixed to have prop static collissions on the server.
